Maybe this has all been discussed before but it seems like a perfectly good way to make time pass on a monday night.
So, what do you all do when you're not playing BG2 that is or "hanging out" here?
I do of course like most other people enjoy the occasional drinking (binge) and am studying for being a pilot.
When I'm not doing any of the above I like good music, engaging in various activities with the other sex and playing my guitar

How about you?

Free time eh......well, it is either school work or:
1) drive my car around
2) wash my car (include waxing)
3) music (along with #5)
4) highschool reunions or university gatherings (play soccer or street hockey)
5) read books relating to stocks (along with #3)
6) and the once in a while bar night
7) sleep

Well, I will keep it short. When I am not playing BG2 or visiting here, I am actually very busy. I do not work, I stay home with 3 kids. So I take care of them, cook, clean house, cross stitch or paint, tend to my animals, remodeling a room and so on and so on. I could fill this entire page with what I do but I do not want to bore everyone so this is the short version.

I am in banking. In my spare time, besides playing these games, I try to convince myself that one of my cats is NOT the anti-Christ...

I devide my time pretty much evenly between the following things...
Playing Guitar (classical),
Playing Basketball (on weekends)
Playing computer games (BG2, Fallout2) not that much actually
Visiting here (although I am cutting down)
Studying (grrrr)
and even a bit of going to school, which takes up half of every week day...
I pretty much have a lot of spare time though...
just going off-tpoic a bit here: I am going to see Aus v WI in the cricket on friday, so that should be good fun, and I also watch the cricket whenever it is on, although I suspect this is something which is only done by Aussie, or english people...
Chow

Well when not playing Bg2 or any other computer game I´m usually at working working with graphic/webdesign at an advertisment bureau, (Reklambyrå).
Otherwise I´m training Krav-maga, a martil art form that gives you alot of bruises
Being out with friends at some bar or club doing ny worst to interact with the opposite sex, some play hard to get, I play hard to want..Anyone knows which that is from??
At home reading a good book, listening to music or watching nature Channel 6..
Hanging out at some cafe drinking my tenth unnecesary cup of coffe..
Surfingh the net for gods know what, chatting with people to try to learn how to spell in different languages.. =)
Watching movies with friends..

NOTHING!!!!!! THIS IS MY SECOND HOME!!!!!!!

In seriousness, I'm currently working about 60 hours a week in marketing, so I'm not posting quite as much as I used to

Socially? During the week I'm usually too buggered to go out after work though once in a while I'll have a drink with friends after work. So that's when I'll have a play around with BG or something and also post here. Funnily enough I hardly watch TV. Thursday and Friday nite drinks at bars/clubs like Establishment, Grand Pacific Blue Room, Kinselas, then Sat nite clubbing at clubs like Home or Goodbar (hence my absence here on Friday and Sat nights ) Sunday recovery at the beach (have to in Sydney!). And in between all that i somehow find time to post 15 ppd here! I've got a lot of nervous energy.

I have been a computer engineer for 11 years. When I have any computer-related problem or question, I just can't live until I have found the solution.

Besides playing BG II, I :

- read a great deal (fiction books, mainly Fantasy, and non-fiction books, mainly related to history or sociology or archaeology)
- have been learning to play the piano for 2 1/2 years along with my son (we have got the best piano teacher ever)
- play AD&D with my hubbie ans son
- try to get a small garden out of the cow field around my house
- enjoy long walks in the mountains around my house
- go to the cinema quite often when my son is away for the holidays

That is, before coming to the board. Now I still do all these things, but I devote less time to them (my garden is going pretty wild by now ... )

I think I've mentioned before that I work 40+ hours per week recruiting, training & supervising senior citizen "volunteers" for two federal/state programs named the Foster Grandparent & Senior Companion Programs. The reason "volunteers" is in quotations is because these people are paid a small, tax-free stipend plus mileage. And they put in up to 30 hours per week. I currently have 95 vols in 15 communities (38 buildings) in the north central region of our state. I travel a lot for my job. I sometimes get a trip to another state for fun. Now that the boys are getting older, perhaps my husband & I will finally get to do some of the international traveling we've dreamed of. HE gets to go much more often than I do. The one true 'inequality' in our relationship!

When I'm not at work, I am mom, homemaker, wife, school volunteer. What spare time I have is used either surfing the web, or playing RPGs. (Not necessarily in that order) Unfortunately, although I love reading, I barely have time for it anymore. Too much activity here in my house!! I've gone from reading 2-3 fantasy novels (& others) per week, to maybe 1 per month. Sad eh?
Actually, I think part of the problem is that RPGs take so much time!

Thank you for posting this topic Vicotnik! I too have been wondering what everyone 'does' for a living!
*ooops* this got long!

At the moment I'm on holidays from uni so I'm not doing much at all. That will be two days a week plus study. But my days at the moment are spent playing BG2 and my nintendo, reading fantasy stuff, playing warhammer and painting my miniatures. I work 5pm to 12 am five or six nights a week then come on this forum after work. This normally results in me sleeping in till like eleven o'clock where the cycle repeats. Exciting huh.

I'm either at work, drunk, writing, or any combination of these three.
Don't seem to be finding much time for this old place lately, either... yes, I might have to burn my bridges soon. There's a chance I'll be moving into suburbia inside the month. Fingers crossed.

Professionally:
Studying English Literature (or making vain attempts to do so)

In my Free Time:
Singing in a choir and occasionally in a band
Practising singing at home
READING READING READING
Playing BG2
currently moving house
sitting in the University Cafe

for me it is as follows
1.work
2.watching my kids while my wife goes to work
3.when my kids are asleep i make some coffee and play BG2
4.when i take a break from bg2 io go outside and smoke a cigarette and look at the woods around my house,and then i start to practice with my katana
5.like alot of people i come here during work

and off the topic i used to go by fighter-thief,but i was bored with it since everyone had great names

Eh? Did I hear you right, Armie? Suburbia? Are we talking...love, marriage, baby carriage...?

What do you mean when we are not playing BG2 or hanging out here? What else is there?

Seriously though, I work for a computer manufacturer as a manager in one of there showrooms. In my spare time I love films, especially sci-fi and I love to read, but like many I don't find enough time. Now I have moved nearer home with my job, I intend to start playing squash again as I am starting to spread out as I reach(ed) middle-age. Like many others I enjoy visiting pubs and wine-bars but my clubbing days are over as my zimmer frame kept being kicked away. Generally, I spend far too much time on my PC, playing RPGs, but I also enjoy Shogun, AOE 2 and most recently Deus Ex. Oh occasionally I interact with my wife, but I try to keep this to a minimum lol

Hmm. She's put up with me for six years as a friend and five as a lover. She hangs around this box of an apartment more often than I do, and there's all sorts of strange devices popping up in my bathroom. There's no guarantees in life, though... ah, I don't know. I'm twenty-three. Maybe I'm just being stupid.
Memnoch, you're the most empathetic bloke I've ever known. Ta, mate. You got it in one.

Hmmmm,
if I'm not playing BG2 I can usually be found playing counterstrike.I'm waiting till FinalFantasy 9 will be released here on Feb.26th at which point in time I will have to probably go into seclusion lol!Unfortunate, as Uni.starts on the same day (where I will be commencing my M.A in philosophy) which means even less time for games .I'm not studying at the moment as its still the summer hols.so I usually work fron 5-11pm and come back home and play BG2 or CS.
Otherwise I spend a degree of time listening to music, writing poetry (I'm hoping to have some published by the end of the year),reading, the usual clubbing and/or drinking thing, the occasional surf, and of course hanging out with my friends.Oh, and I really love sleeping.We just got a new kitten in the flat this week and it sometimes spends 20hrs asleep.I look at it and wish I could do that !

Armisael tamed? lol. Congratulations man, I am pleased for you. And no you are not being stupid, that would only happen if you let someone you care for slip away because you feared committment. What the ladies of the board will have to say now you are sworn to another who knows, but I suspect that many hearts are about to be broken. No offence, but I think you mean empathic. Hate to think anyone would call Memnoch (pa)thetic? lol

Armi, far from breaking my (or I think any other board lady's) heart , I'm very happy for you!
I love it when I hear people are happy! It makes me happy too!
(what a lot of happy's...could it be that I'm rambling again???)

Armisael: All kidding aside, here. Congratulations! If you've got something that has lasted this long, go for it. And from what I've seen here, she's a lucky lady, too.

I teach high school English and Speech (mostly 14-16 year old students). For the past 10 years I have coached the Debate team. When I get home, the first thing I do is get the kids situated with a snack, and sit down to about 45 minutes of BG2. Then I make dinner.

My interests include computers, cooking, and reading -- although cooking has degenerated into making dinner and reading is almost forgotten. I read the forum from work -- during lunch and after school. I play BG2 after everyone in my house goes to bed.

Not stupid Armisael, not at all! Congrats man!

Past: work at a bank, read, travel, study and cook.
Present: play BGII, read this forum, forget to eat, and drink too much coffee to get me through the day after spending too much time playing BGII

Urgh... yeah. Empathic. Christ, and I write for a living...
Thanks for all the support. S'appreciated.

When not here I am seeking empolyment, attemting to finish a few short stories IRE:(OFF TOPIC) What do you do?

grrrrr, more posts disappeared from this thread!

BK, even though our posts are gone, I'll answer your last one (or at least the last one I saw): hehehe, I told you I touch-type! Am also existing on tea and advil this week, but it's worth it for a little fun- been a rough month and looks like two more to come, sigh...

- ps, you are definitely making it worth the late nights

I can't get over the feeling I am slowly diasappearing...seems like lately whenever I type anything longer than a few lines it winks out of the thread- spent half my lunch on that 'what do you do' post which was ON TOPIC for the thread too...sniffle

My hobbies are working on home improvements, (Putting up new walls, painting, making wooden shelves, blah, blah, blah. When I get really freaked out, I go over to my friend's house and either engage in a martial arts training (me getting my arse kicked), or practicing in the band that we are trying to form( I am the drummer, he is the Bass man). We have already had a few good shows, and looking to do another in March. We have a Hispanic lead guitarist that we are going to have play with us so we can do "La Bamba"...(a good crowd pleaser, no??)

Dearest StormCloud, I understand. Our little eRendevous have kept me up, too. But well worth it. =)

BK

BK: sigh --- have you been to the last thread (the one with the extra long title!) lately? poor gabriel...and the smoking outbuilding...hmmmm may need investigating for my ladysister

Larry: good luck with the band. My best friend's brother is a drummer for his band. they get small gigs here and there and it's just a hobby for them, so they do alright.

BK: (I'll post a bit at lunch and tonight, can't do much this morning- work calls me. ugh)

Congrats Silramae the woman! All the best bro. Could it be the 'bleeding heart' is softening? Amazing!

WHAAT THE F*CK?
RE: (OFF TOPIC) What do you do? (modified Cloudbringer times) Valen
When not here I am seeking empolyment, attemting to finish a few short stories IRE: (OFF TOPIC) What do you do?
ONE this is not what i typed!!!
TWO Modified CloudBringer times?????????????????????????????????????????????

Uh oh dodgy board.
Someone save vital posts they love or all will be lost!!!

Yah, several posts have vanished from this thread over the last few days. I know my (rather long) description of what I do, went off into the ether void and then I saw a few others vanish in btwn the ones that are still here. Not surprised, seems like there's a lot of activity on the board.

Hmmm, what do I do? At this moment in time I want to run full speed into a brick wall. Head first. Yep that'll do.

Just checking in, Javier said that a post was made but with the wrong username or something. (I wouldn't doubt it with the bugs) but don't worry, I've been backing up all the threads every few days now, so nothing is lost (it'll all show up on the new boards soon).

Server update btw: almost done, testing will start next week and we'll let you guys test post on it may as well. It should be a bit faster and the new forum WILL BE better!

Ziroc
Ironworks Web dude

Vicotnik, you would live with your parents? You do not work?

Ziroc!
Thanks for all you hard work. This board is is a wonderful place.The new one will be appreciated by a lot of people.





Cloudbringer

Thanks Ziroc! Can't wait....though I must admit I have to get use to the new board's format.

That is true Kylle! You've got me! I'm wrapping up college as we speak and taking flight lessons so living on my own and working is quite impossible at the moment!